Joint Studies on Responsibility to Educating Following Generations : Toward Theoretical Foundation of Life-long Education

1.为了克服当今严重的教育危机，更广泛地说，是现代文明本身的危机，我们必须打破通常教育理论只关注“儿童”、“青年”等的狭隘局限，构建“人类整体发展的教育理论”。从这个角度出发，我们已经研究了“终身教育”的理论基础和人类“老与死”的教育意义。只有接受“世代链”的观念，研究“教育后代的责任”，才能完成“人的整体发展教育理论”的建构。这三年我们进行了合作学习，构建了“教育责任综合理论”。首先，我们详尽地查阅了参考文献，发现缺乏从人类整体发展的角度讨论教育责任的文献。接下来，我们制定了一个框架和程序，将任务分配给每个成员。第三年，我们做了一个试探性的报告，证明了“育人责任”的问题就是“代际互教”的问题，在“代际互规互教”中实现了人与人的发展。在此之后，我们将通过对“生成性”等概念的思考进一步展开研究，并发表研究成果。

1.In order to overcome today's serious crisis of education, widely that of modern civilization itself, we have to break the narrow limits of usual theories of education which focus only on "children" , "youthfulness" etc., and construct "educational theory of human development as a whole" . From this point of view, we have already researched the theoretical foundation of "life-long education" and the educational meaning of "aging and death" in human being.2.Constructing "educational theory of human development as a whole" can be accomplished only through accepting the idea of "chain of generations" and researching on "responsibility to educating following generations" . We have made our cooperative study to construct "the comprehensive theory of responsibility to education" for these three years. First, we examined the referential literatures exhaustively and found an absence of literature discussing responsibility to education from the view point of human development as a whole. Next, we made a framework and a program to share tasks to each member. In the third year, we gave a tentative report, in which we proved that the problem of "responsibility to educating following generations" is that of "mutual education between generations" and that human being and human development can be realized in "the mutual regulation and education between generations" . After this, we will develop the research further through the consideration on the concept of "generativity" etc, and publish the research results.